Now that Destiny 2 has launched on PC, it looks like Bungie is going to get stuck into improving the overall experience. In a new developer blog post, game director Christopher Barrett outlines the various changes that the studio is currently working on.
We've pasted all the details below for your perusal.
- New systems and rewards to give our most engaged players additional, optional pursuits.
- Better incentives for players who complete challenging Prestige activities.
- Better rewards and replay value for strikes, adventures, and Lost Sectors.
- Private matches for the competitive community (we are targeting early 2018).
- Crucible tuning like adjusted Supremacy scoring and better spawning rules.
- Better incentives for completing Crucible matches (and penalties for quitting competitive games).
- Continued improvements to Iron Banner and Faction Rallies, including uniqueness of rewards.
- Changes to make the mod economy more interesting and impactful.
- Ongoing improvements to Exotics, including adjustments to reduce instances of duplication.
- New ways to spend surplus currency and materials (looking at you Legendary Shards).
- An emote interface that allows players to equip Salty, Spicy Ramen, Six Shooter, and Flip Out all at the same time.
Every single one of these alterations sounds good to us, and it's nice to know that Bungie appears to be listening to player feedback. It's unclear whether all of these changes will be implemented in a single patch, but we're sure the developer will update us when the time comes.
How does all of this look to you? Are you still playing Destiny 2? Stockpile some exotics in the comments section below.
[source bungie.net]
Comments 7
I have all the weapon Exotics - just missing 1 or two armour exotics - looking at you Celestial Nighthawk!!! All are 305 too.
On Reset, it takes roughly a days play for me to complete all 3 prestige nightfalls, raids and flashpoints - all the activities that reward 'Powerful Gear'. My Titan is just a 'mark away' from 305 but my other 2 are 305. I have Max Glimmer with nothing to spend it on, 2000 legendary shards and enough junk in my vault to add 300 more if I wanted so 'currency' is not something I need to grind for. There is no point doing anything else as the rewards are worthless - just shards. No weapons are worth grinding for to be infused up as they all have static rolls - its not like I am looking out for a god roll drop...
If you don't do the adventures during the Story, by the time you finish, they are pointless for the rewards as they are too low to be worthwhile.
They really do need to add more incentive to play these - as well as all the other activities in the end game. I know D1 was criticised but it had so much more - even before the Dark Below launched...
Sounds good.
I'm still playing but nowhere near as much as I was. The game starts to lose some of its appeal when you stop progressing.
Dismantling 99% of the loot you receive isn't any fun.
I will say, after having put 20 hours or so into D2 on PS4, and having played about 6 on PC, it really does feel amazing on PC. I'm giving my PS4 friends one week to start actually playing in groups more before I trade it in and stick to the PC version. The game just looks and feels amazing at 2K/144fps.
Oh, and a small but very noticeable difference....load times. My ship literally spends 2 seconds in orbit or above a planet before descending.
Bulk dismantling of shaders is a must
These aint gonna turn up until 2018, too late. I'll farting about in PvP a little bit but I doubt I'll be buying any dlc unless they make significant changes to make the game more fun and rewarding. I'll most likely delete D2 and install D1 again.
@BAMozzy I'm sat on about 2500 shards, im pretty much done, it's not much fun anymore.
I stopped playing for all the reasons already stated. None of the changes will make a big difference to the utter pointlessness of playing Destiny 2. It's a game built for casuals, so let them play it whilst I wait for a proper MMO to sink my time into.
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